Magical Experiments - The Evolution of Magic

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What’s Eating Your Energy? Part 2

What’s Eating Your Energy? Part 2

The Hidden Harvest of Your Attention—and How to Take It Back

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Have you ever walked away from a magical working or a spiritual gathering feeling drained, instead of lit up?

Have you noticed a fog creeping in after certain practices, or a gnawing fatigue that doesn’t seem connected to anything you did?

Maybe you’ve been told, “Oh, it’s just the energy of the work” or “You’re just sensitive.”

But what if there’s something else going on?

What if your energy is being harvested—and you don’t even know it?

Your Attention is Not Neutral.

In magic, attention isn’t just focus.
It’s a current that flows.
A contract that binds.
A currency that feeds.

Where your attention flows, something grows.

  • Sometimes it’s your healing.

  • Sometimes it’s your business.

  • Sometimes it’s your fear.

  • And sometimes…it’s someone else’s entity, spell, or unresolved trauma—feeding quietly off the edges of your life.


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The Hidden Harvest: How It Happens

There are many ways your attention can be harvested, and as active and avid magical experimenters, we have encountered and learned the hard way many mundane and magical ways in which energy is being harvested. As the power struggle for our attention grows these techniques are being used more often. Here are a few to watch for:

The Parasite Sigil

You cast a sigil for prosperity. But the design, the phrasing, the source of the technique is not your own. You don’t know what is encoded in it. It opens a door you didn’t mean to. Suddenly, instead of pulling in abundance, your sigil is siphoning your attention to feed a magical working or entity you never consented to serve.

The Group Field Drain

You join a spiritual group, a course, or a community. At first, it feels great. But over time, you notice exhaustion, fogginess, a subtle loss of clarity. Why? The group field is an entity of its own—and sometimes, it feeds off its members to sustain itself.

The Haunted Object

That ring from an old relationship. That journal from a past spell. That book gifted to you by someone you no longer trust. Objects hold charge. And if that charge isn’t cleared, it can create a loop—a slow drip siphoning your energy back into the past, over and over again.

The Hitchhiker Spell

You do a working for clarity, love, or protection—maybe from a book, a blog, or a class. It feels good, feels right… at first. But you didn’t know that spell template carries a hitchhiker: an embedded signature or spirit that rides along with the ritual, collecting energy from anyone who runs it. That hitchhiker might not be malicious—but it’s not yours, and it’s feeding on your energy.

The Ancestor Loop

You carry a family pattern: scarcity, control, martyrdom, fear of success. It’s not just psychology—it’s an energetic tether, a contract your ancestors signed, consciously or not. When you repeat those patterns, you’re not just living your own story—you’re feeding the ancestral egregore. Your attention, your struggles, your energy—they become the fuel that keeps the loop alive.

The Digital Drain

Your phone. Your computer. Your social media feeds. Every time you scroll mindlessly, your attention flows into a vast, unseen network of corporate entities, AI systems, and algorithmic spirits designed to harvest your time, focus, and creative spark. This is not a neutral exchange. These digital platforms are modern-day altars where your energy is being fed into systems that may not align with your values or magic.

The Dream-Sucker

Ever had a dream that feels like it wasn’t yours? That weirdly cinematic, hyper-detailed sequence that leaves you drained or haunted in the morning?

Some dreams aren’t just your subconscious—they’re harvest fields.

Entities, human or non-human, farm the dreamspace, pulling in energy from collective unconscious streams. They insert storylines, hook you into their architectures, and feed on the raw emotional current your psyche produces while you sleep.

The Ritual Echo Chamber

You cast a spell. It works. Feels great. So you do it again. And again. And again. But each repetition carves a groove deeper into the 4D—until what was once a living, creative act becomes an echo loop. The spell stops being yours—it starts serving the form itself. The form becomes the altar, the pattern becomes the god, and you are now feeding a feedback loop that’s no longer aligned with your intention. Your attention becomes the offering… and the form keeps growing. We do this on a mundane level all the time too!

The Time-Tethered Tangle

Ever wonder why you can’t leave a place, a person, a job—even when it’s rotting you out from the inside? There are time-tethered contracts hidden in the architecture of physical locations and social systems. These are often ancestral, land-based, or culturally implanted—loops woven into the very fabric of the timeline.

It’s not just emotional or psychological—it’s temporal. You’re locked in a story that predates you, feeding an old, dusty egregore that survives because no one sees it.
Your life force? It’s the rent you pay for being part of the system.


Want to Try Something Right Now?

Here’s a quick Energetic Leak Detection Prompt you can do today:

  1. Scan your life like it is a field of crops.
    Where do you feel drier, wilted, choked with weeds or overgrown?
    A relationship? A project? A space in your home?

  2. Hold that in your awareness and ask:
    “Is this feeding me—or is it feeding on me?”

  3. Notice the body.
    Tight chest? Clenched gut? Tingling in the hands?
    That’s your system telling you where to look.

  4. Write down what rises.
    These are your leads.

Share what you discover in the comments!

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Want to Go Deeper?

On Tuesday, June 24th from 5–6:30pm PST, we’re hosting a brand-new masterclass:

The Hidden Harvest: What’s Eating Your Energy?

In this 90-minute session, we’ll teach you:

  • How to detect hidden contracts and attention siphons

  • How to tell when a sigil, spell, or object is doing something else

  • How to spot parasitic group dynamics and energetic red flags

  • How to use a brand-new dowsing protocol to track and trace energy drains (created by Sheena, used by us both)

  • How to reclaim your attention and rewrite energetic agreements

This isn’t a theory class—it’s a diagnostic lab for your magical field.
You’ll leave with immediately actionable tools to protect your energy, clear your space, and reclaim your power.

💸 $47 | 25% off for paid subscribers (scroll to the bottom of the post to get your discount)
📍 Live Zoom session, recording available to all registered

Reserve your spot


Questions? Drop them in the comments.

Insights? Share what you noticed in the Energetic Leak Detection exercise.
We’ll be in the comments, ready to chat.

We hope you will join us on June 24th!

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